Outline of Olympic Games Ticket

Ticket Price

The TOCOG has announced the outline of Olympics Games ticket.

Needless to say, it's expensive... haha...

The price of the Opening ceremony is 12,000 - 300,000 JPY (108 - 2,709 US$). 300,000 JPY (2,709 US$)!?!?!

The prices of each sport are;
https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/notice/20180720-03.html

I heard that games which are popular among Japanese people and have possibility to get medals tend to be expensive, such as swimming, Gymnastics (Artistic), judo, baseball.
But I'm wondering why Basketball is such expensive? Basketball is not so popular in Japan and not strong at all.
Is it just because NBA players will participate in?

I want to watch swimming and Gymnastics (Artistic) if I can't get a chance to work as a volunteer, both are quite expensive though. And, the opening ceremony is "MUST."
I need to save money for that! haha.


How to Purchase

Notice:
The following information is just for Japan residents.
The TOCOG announced only about domestic sales.
For people living abroad, it just says;
Those living outside of Japan will be able to order their tickets through the National Olympic Committee of their respective country or their authorized ticket reseller. A list of these organisations in each country will be published by next spring on the Tokyo 2020 official website. Ticket prices and the application process will vary from country to country, although the structure will be broadly in line with that for tickets purchased in Japan. 

Distributer
The TOCOG sells directly.
Hmm... regarding Olympic ticket sales, there have been many problems. Did the TOCOG regard not using any reseller as the safest way?

The way to purchase
You should register TOKYO 2020 ID and can buy tickets through the site.
I registered in May. My article about that;
https://mytokyoolympics.blogspot.com/search?q=TOKYO+2020+ID

As usual, it is provided only in Japanese language.

The schedule
The spring of 2019: Olympic tickets will be available
The summer of 2019: Paralympic tickets will be available
The spring of 2020: You will receive the tickets you purchase.

 *It plans to sell tickets through ticket stores in 2020.



As usual, Japan is far from "Globalization."
As well as TOKYO 2020 ID, the TOCOG provided the ticket information site only in Japanese.
Although it is only for domestic residents, domestic residents include many non-Japanese and some of them don't speak Japanese.
How unfriendly and thoughtless and narrow-minded it is!